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Bishop Donald J. Hying: Understanding the Devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus and What it Means (July 25, 2024) – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

Bishop Donald J. Hying: Understanding the Devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus and What it Means (July 25, 2024)

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By Bishop Donald J. Hying, Simply Catholic, July 25, 2024

Bishop Donald J. Hying is bishop of the Diocese of Madison, Wisconsin.

When I was a child, a beautiful picture of the Sacred Heart of Jesus hung in my parents’ bedroom. A warm, smiling Jesus lovingly pointed to His heart, pierced and crowned with thorns, in an eternal gesture of invitation. Whenever I looked at that picture, I felt good — embraced, loved, cared for — as if the Lord were inviting me to step into His joy and peace. My mother had a great devotion to the Sacred Heart; every First Friday, we would consecrate our lives anew to His love and mercy.

Each summer — usually in June — we celebrate the solemnity of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus and draw near to the tender mercy and forgiveness of the Lord. Poetically, the heart is a symbol of the human center — our emotions, loves, passions, desires, the force of the will. In his book “The Sacred Heart of the World,” David Richo explains: “Our heart is the soft center of the egoless self and it has one desire: to open. The heart is the capacity to open.… It contains our ability to reach out so it is the antidote to despair.… Contemplation of Jesus’ Heart shows us how deep we really are, how vast our potential for love, how high our aspiration for the light.” ….

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